Introduction: Marriage is seen as an institution for, among various objects, the procreation of children. Children in Islam are ideally seen as the fruits of marriage-for mothers as homemakers to love and nurture and for ...

The 16th and 17th sessions of the African Committee of Experts on the
Rights and Welfare of the Child took place at the African Union Commission
Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in November 2010 and
March 2011, ...

International law approaches the right to education
for children with disabilities in a rather generic way. This means that the
rights of children with intellectual disabilities have to be gleaned from the
general ...

INTRODUCTION: This article reviews the first decade of jurisprudence concerning interpretation of the rights enumerated in s 28(1)(c) of the Constitution of South Africa (the Constitution), commonly referred to as the ...

The article analyses the Nubian Children communication, the very first case to be finalised by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. It critically reviews the progressive approach of the ...

Sloth-Nielsen, Julia(Nelson R Mandela School of Law, University of Fort Hare, 2009)

This article examines the principle of child participation in a legal context, focusing first on the international and constitutional law framework, and thereafter on the principle as it has permeated the South African ...

Sexual crimes continues to be a scourge in our society. It is therefore not surprising that the prevention and criminalisation of sexual crimes in South Africa has received a large amount of attention over the last few ...